St Leo’s Bulletin December 15th 3rd Sunday of Advent : 2024
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Mass Sunday vigil: Saturday at 6.00p.m. Sunday 10.30 a.m. Weekday Mass 10.00 Confessions on Saturday at 5.30 p.m. and on request.
Carols for Peace: City Chambers this Sunday 15th at 3.00 – within message from our twin city of Bethlehem.
Tuesday: short carol service in Kinning Park Church at 12.30. All welcome
St Leo’s Choir: we need a little rehearsal to prepare for Christmas. Can we meet in the church on Monday 16th December at 7.00 and after the Parish Penance Service on Monday 23rd December
Advent Ecumenical Morning Prayer: Our Advent Morning Prayer is shared with Ibrox and Sherwood Mosspark Churches. This Thursday it will take place in Sherbrooke Mosspark Church at 10.00. We do without Mass that day to promote the restoration of Christian unit
Appeal for wool – knitters (and others) please see if you have any wool to donate so that volunteers can knit blankets, gloves, wooly hats etc for the elderly. Hand in at the church porch or the house
Advent Day of Confessions: There will be a Day of Confessions on Tuesday 17thDecember in St Andrew’s Cathedral 9am 5.15pm
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The Morning Hour – repeated hourly from 7.00 – 11.00
07.00: Morning Prayers for Advent
7.15: A morning prayer with young people of St Margaret Mary’s Secondary School, Castlemilk.
7.27: We look ahead to the 4th Sunday of Advent with words from the Liturgical Calendar for Scotland.
7.30: In our Magazine, Fr Tom Magill in Advent and the longing that is part of our lives; Michael Rankin reports on Aid to the Church in Need in Syria; from Despatches ‘Humanity is under Siege in Gaza; then a year in the Amazon; and finally a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him “to commute the sentences of all 40 men currently on federal death row.”
Lunchtime
12.00/6.00: In our Glasgow Churches Together service Paul Cathcart leads us in an Advent Service
12.15/6.15 The Office of Readings including passages from the Prophet Isaiah 29: 13-24 and then from a Sermon of St Augustine
12.30/06.30: Elizabeth Adam keeping us up to date with Newsnatter
01.00/7.00: In our Glasgow Churches Together service Paul Cathcart leads us in an Advent Service
01.15/ 07.15 The Office of Readings including passages from the Prophet Isaiah 29: 13-24 and then from a Sermon of St Augustine
01.30/07.30 Elizabeth Adam with Newsnatter
2.00 – 5.00: Christian music hourly
Evening Hour – repeated hourly from 8.00 – 10.00
8.00: Evening Prayer
8.20: Our Magazine
8.50: Night Prayer
11.00 – 7.00 a.m. christian music hourly
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Intercessions 15th December
On the 3rd Sunday of Advent let’s renew our awareness of being loved by God.
Lord, hear us
We pray that our own lives may help those who do not have the gift of faith, or whose faith is timid, to become more aware of God’s presence in their lives.
Lord, hear us
Let’s pray for peace in Ukraine, the Holy Land, Syria and the entire Middle East.
Lord, hear us
We pray for sick people among our families, our friends and our parish including Caroline Mills and Yvonne Watt..
Lord, hear us
We pray for those who have died recently, including Jim Fitzpatrick, Joan Burns, Eileen Corrigan, Jane Wood, Moira Devine, Alison McNeill, Rena Moscardini, and Ann Morrison. And, for those whose anniversaries fall about now: including Rosina Gara, John McVey, John Steele, Betty Malaney, Liam Brogan, Adrian Rogers, Ian Davidson, Kevin Barret, Pat Doherty, Elizabeth Mulligan, Bernard Gilmartin, Andrew and Tom Greville, Jane Mary Greville, Thomas McGregor and Dina Lanni.
Lord, hear us
